The Quality of Substitute Care - a Challence for Vocational Education and Child Welfare Services

1. The Quality of Substitute Care- a Challence for Vocational Education and Child Welfare Services 1.10.2006-30.11.2008 Kirsi-Leena Frigren

2. The project is focusing on: • How to improve qualifications and skills of professionals who are working in substitute care • The partners are from Finland, Italy, Great-Britain and Estonia.

3. The objectives are: • To define what is good quality in substitute care • What kind of knowledge and skills are demanded from professionals working in good-quality substitute care • Material for supplementary training courses and teaching material for teachers • Recommendations for vocational education will be produced during the project

4. Products: • a supplementary training programme for the training of children’s substitute care service providers for each of the partner countries in their respective languages • a material package for the teachers implementing supplementary education in the partner countries • a recommendation concerning the developing of educational contents of the courses considering substitute care in each of the countries to be distributed to all educational organisations • a report consisting of the partners’ common view on substitute care services and their quality, requirements for the employees, and comparative information from the partner countries considering the norms of the quality of substitute care services and the training of substitute care employees

5. Partners Finland: P1 Satakunta University of Applied Sciences P2 Viikari-home Ltd P3 Lehmuskolo Ltd P4 Porin College, social and health P5 Turku School of Economics , Pori Unit P6 Satakuntaliitto P7 Central Union of Child Welfare in Finland

6. Partners Italy: • P8 Enaip Sardegna • P9 The Municiplity of Cagliari Estonia: • P10 Tartu Ylikool Pärnu Kolledz • P11 Haiba Lastekodu Great-Britain: • P 12 Royal Kingston Looked after and Adolescent Services • P 13 School of Social Work, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences Kingston University/ St George's University of London

7. SAMK Kingston Children and Family Services Satakunta- liitto TUKKK Viikari- koti Kingston University Lehmus- kolo Lastensuojelun keskusliitto PAM UK partner consortium Finnish partner consortium Enaip Sardegna Pärnu College of Tartu University Haiba Lastekodu Municipality of Cagliari Italian partner consortium Estonian partner consortium

8. Working process • The project will be put into practice through workshops and seminars: some of the workshops will be local and some will include all partners • In each partner country there is a responsible partner (partners 1, 8, 10 and 12) • They are responsible for co-ordinating the consortium’s tasks and organising a seminar • These partners form the project’s international management group

9. Working process • The main responsible partner is Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK), which prepares the preliminary tasks for the national consortiums to perform before the international seminar • In each international seminar the preliminary tasks will be discussed and agreed upon and the next tasks and their schedule will be arranged • There will be four international seminars (Finland 2006/12, Italy 2007/03, Great Britain 2007/09 and Estonia 2008/06) • SAMK will prepare the next preliminary tasks and plan the seminar together with the next responsible partner (8, 10 and 12).